TAP reading note: Blood Pressure and Fibrinogen Responses to Mental Stress as Predictors of Incident Hypertension over an 8-Year Period
Highest versus lowest recovery-period systolic pressure tertile was associated with incident hypertension: adjusted OR 2.06 (95% CI 1.19–3.57). This is a specific prospective association, not a personal recovery cutoff.
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What the study found
Highest versus lowest recovery-period systolic pressure tertile was associated with incident hypertension: adjusted OR 2.06 (95% CI 1.19–3.57). This is a specific prospective association, not a personal recovery cutoff.
Scope & limitations
636 Whitehall II participants without hypertension or cardiovascular disease at baseline; mean age 59.1.
Non-randomized exposure, residual confounding and a selected cohort limit causal interpretation. OR is not a direct ratio of individual probabilities. Baseline pressure was included among adjustments.
Population & sample
636 Whitehall II participants without hypertension or cardiovascular disease at baseline; mean age 59.1.
Exposure or intervention
Blood-pressure and fibrinogen responses to standardized mental tasks.
Outcomes
Incident hypertension defined by clinic readings and medication status.
Time frame
Average eight-year follow-up.
Research funding
British Heart Foundation RG/10/005/28296, as indexed in the publication declaration.
Research conflicts of interest
Not yet verified against the full text.
Reading scope
UCL-hosted published full text: sample, Table 3, recovery-tertile comparison and funding statement. No individual-risk model was reproduced.
References
Publication record
TAP-RDN-0100 · v1.0 · English
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